Guitar Slim

Eddie Jones, known as Guitar Slim, was an American guitarist in the 1940s and 1950s, best known for the million-selling song "The Things That I Used to Do", for Specialty Records. It is listed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. Slim had a major impact on rock and roll and experimented with distorted tones on the electric guitar a full decade before Jimi Hendrix.

10 December 1926

Born on the same birth day (10 December): C. Rajagopalachari • Charlie Adam • Claudia Hoffmann • Edmund Mortimer (rebel) • Elizabeth Baker (economist) • Harold Gould • Hermes Pan • Jadunath Sarkar • Jahangir Khan • Joseph Škoda • Kang Daniel • Ken Campbell • Melissa Roxburgh • Michael Manley • Pannonica de Koenigswarter • Peter Baker (footballer, born 1931) • Philip R. Craig • Reginald Rose • Sakiko Matsui • Shoya Tomizawa • Summer Phoenix • Terry Allcock

Born in the same month (December 1926): A. N. R. Robinson • Alcides Ghiggia • Allyn Ann McLerie • Arnošt Lustig • Bobby Layne • Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner • David Nathan (journalist) • Donald Carr • Earle Brown • Enrique Jorrín • Geoffrey Howe • Harold Dorman • James McCracken • Jan Křesadlo • Jeffrey Stone • Lorenzo Wright • Otto Graf Lambsdorff • Robert Bly • William John McNaughton